This refers to the report "JD(U) sets Dec deadline for BJP to name PM candidate" (April 15). The secular-communal politics has outlived its utility in electoral battles; nobody votes for a person or a party merely for the secular tag. The new planks for electoral success are development and governance, to which Modi's successive victories in Gujarat can be attributed. And according to the recent opinion polls, no other leader in the BJP or any other party matches Modi's popularity and mass appeal.
M C Joshi Lucknow
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